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Improve validation of input arguments for base statistics functions.
| author | Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> |
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| date | Thu, 27 May 2010 20:12:51 -0700 |
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| 7017 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, |
| 8920 | 2 ## 2007, 2008, 2009 John W. Eaton |
| 3200 | 3 ## |
| 4 ## This file is part of Octave. | |
| 5 ## | |
| 6 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
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| 3200 | 10 ## |
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| 7016 | 17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
| 18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 3200 | 19 |
| 3367 | 20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
| 4885 | 21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} skewness (@var{x}, @var{dim}) |
| 3499 | 22 ## If @var{x} is a vector of length @math{n}, return the skewness |
| 3367 | 23 ## @tex |
| 24 ## $$ | |
| 25 ## {\rm skewness} (x) = {1\over N \sigma(x)^3} \sum_{i=1}^N (x_i-\bar{x})^3 | |
| 26 ## $$ | |
| 6754 | 27 ## where $\bar{x}$ is the mean value of $x$. |
| 3367 | 28 ## @end tex |
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29 ## @ifnottex |
| 3426 | 30 ## |
| 3367 | 31 ## @example |
| 32 ## skewness (x) = N^(-1) std(x)^(-3) sum ((x - mean(x)).^3) | |
| 33 ## @end example | |
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34 ## @end ifnottex |
| 3426 | 35 ## |
| 3367 | 36 ## @noindent |
| 4885 | 37 ## of @var{x}. If @var{x} is a matrix, return the skewness along the |
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38 ## first non-singleton dimension of the matrix. If the optional |
| 4885 | 39 ## @var{dim} argument is given, operate along this dimension. |
| 3367 | 40 ## @end deftypefn |
| 3200 | 41 |
| 5428 | 42 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> |
| 3200 | 43 ## Created: 29 July 1994 |
| 44 ## Adapted-By: jwe | |
| 45 | |
| 4885 | 46 function retval = skewness (x, dim) |
| 3200 | 47 |
| 4885 | 48 if (nargin != 1 && nargin != 2) |
| 6046 | 49 print_usage (); |
| 3200 | 50 endif |
| 51 | |
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52 if (!ismatrix(x) || ischar(x)) |
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53 error ("skewness: X must be a numeric matrix or vector"); |
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54 endif |
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| 4885 | 56 nd = ndims (x); |
| 57 sz = size (x); | |
| 58 if (nargin != 2) | |
| 4886 | 59 ## Find the first non-singleton dimension. |
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60 dim = find (sz > 1, 1); |
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61 if (isempty (dim)) |
| 4885 | 62 dim = 1; |
| 3200 | 63 endif |
| 64 else | |
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65 if (!(isscalar (dim) && dim == round (dim)) || |
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66 !(1 <= dim && dim <= nd)) |
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67 error ("skewness: DIM must be an integer and a valid dimension"); |
| 4885 | 68 endif |
| 69 endif | |
| 70 | |
| 4886 | 71 c = sz(dim); |
| 4885 | 72 idx = ones (1, nd); |
| 73 idx (dim) = c; | |
| 74 x = x - repmat (mean (x, dim), idx); | |
| 4886 | 75 sz(dim) = 1; |
| 4885 | 76 retval = zeros (sz); |
| 77 s = std (x, [], dim); | |
| 78 ind = find (s > 0); | |
| 79 x = sum (x .^ 3, dim); | |
| 4886 | 80 retval(ind) = x(ind) ./ (c * s(ind) .^ 3); |
| 4885 | 81 |
| 3200 | 82 endfunction |
| 7411 | 83 |
| 84 %!error skewness (); | |
| 85 | |
| 86 %!error skewness (1, 2, 3); | |
| 87 |